You're right. The speech is a classic. Kenneth Branagh's movie version is worth a look, even if you don't generally go in for Shakespeare (although, admittedly, Emma Thompson is no Katharine Ross.)

On the other hand, as a small player doing a parimutuel battle with rebate players armed with Thorograph data, batch betting capability, and inside info on whose performance is being chemically enhanced today, I feel some empathy for the French infantry. Finley is mistaken when he says rebate players are racing's best customers. Without people willing to consistently lose 30 cents on a betting dollar, it all goes away.

I've never read the Ragozin board. Do they do Shakespeare there? If TGJB is Prince Hal, who is LF? Henry IV? Falstaff?



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